Writings of Planet Drum
One of our old friends took a look at the web and commented, "What you need now is
a 'Best of Planet Drum' section, with reprints of all those pieces we cherished for years
(and still do)."
So here are some of our best articles, which inspired many of us to get involved in
bioregional groups in the first place. If you have any suggestions of what you'd like to
see here, please contact us through the feedback form.
 | Amble Toward Continent Congress was a manifesto to overcome the
politics of extinction, the Earth-colonist globalism which exhausts whole continents,
their people, and moves now to devastate deep floors of our planetary oceans. This piece
was distributed with one of the early Planet Drum Bundles, and was written to counter the
patriotic fervor of the US Bicentennial in 1976. [Note: Amble is
also available as
part of one of the original Planet Drum bundles.
Please visit our Publications page for more information.]
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| Bioregion and Human Location was a talk
that Peter gave at the University of North Carolina in 1982 (published originally in All
Area #2, Spring 1983). It lays out the argument that "there has to be a new politics
based on reincorporating the social and natural sciences together in a way that is
appropriate for developing a planetarian civilization."
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| Metamorphosis for Cities is an
article by Peter from 1995 that outlined the blueprint for transforming
urban areas to bring them into "balanced reciprocity with natural
systems." Subsequent work by Planet Drum Foundation in cooperation with
the Eco City movement in Ecuador can be seen
in the vision this article described.
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| Bioregionalism
Meets Local Autonomy in Mexico reports on the November 1996 Turtle Island
Bioregional Gathering (TIBG) in Tepoztlán, Mexico.
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| Green City as Thriving City by David Morris
was originally published in Raise The Stakes #13, Winter 1988. This
article discusses price versus cost in the global economy and the
advantages of local self-reliance. |
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